Sure Road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
Biographical note
Eric Morier-Genoud, Ph.D. (2006) in Historical Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton, is Lecturer in African History at Queen's University Belfast. He has published extensively on the history, religion and politics of Mozambique and South Africa.
Readership
Academics, students and all those interested in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau as well as students and instructors of Comparative Politics, Nationalism Studies, African Studies and the History of Portuguese-speaking Africa.
Table of contents
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ..................................................................................................vii
List of Contributors ................................................................................................. ix
Introduction. Thinking about Nationalisms & Nations in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique ...............xiii
Eric Morier-Genoud
I Anticolonialism & Nationalism: Deconstructing Synonymy, Investigating Historical Processes.
Notes on the Heterogeneity of Former African Colonial Portuguese Areas ........................................... 1
Michel Cahen
II Virtual Nations and Failed States: Making Sense of the Labyrinth ............................... 31
Philip J. Havik
III The Social Origins of Good and Bad Governance: Re-interpreting the 1968 Schism in Frelimo ............ 79
Georgi Derluguian
IV Writing a Nation or Writing a Culture? Frelimo and Nationalism During the Mozambican Liberation War ...103
Maria-Benedita Basto
V ‘An Imaginary Nation’. Nationalism, Ideology & the Mozambican National Elite ..............................127
Jason Sumich
VI UNITA and the Moral Economy of Exclusion in Angola, 1966–1977 ..................................................149
Didier Péclard
VII Angola’s Euro-African Nationalism: The United Angolan Front ..........................................................177
Fernando Tavares Pimenta
Changing Nationalisms: From War to Peace in Angola......................199
Justin Pearce
IX Is ‘Nationalism’ a Feature of Angola’s Cultural Identity? ...................217
David Birmingham
X Nationalisms, Nations and States: Concluding Reflections ...............231
Gavin Williams
Thematic Bibliography .........................................................................................251
Index.........................................................................................................................265
List of Illustrations ..................................................................................................vii
List of Contributors ................................................................................................. ix
Introduction. Thinking about Nationalisms & Nations in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique ...............xiii
Eric Morier-Genoud
I Anticolonialism & Nationalism: Deconstructing Synonymy, Investigating Historical Processes.
Notes on the Heterogeneity of Former African Colonial Portuguese Areas ........................................... 1
Michel Cahen
II Virtual Nations and Failed States: Making Sense of the Labyrinth ............................... 31
Philip J. Havik
III The Social Origins of Good and Bad Governance: Re-interpreting the 1968 Schism in Frelimo ............ 79
Georgi Derluguian
IV Writing a Nation or Writing a Culture? Frelimo and Nationalism During the Mozambican Liberation War ...103
Maria-Benedita Basto
V ‘An Imaginary Nation’. Nationalism, Ideology & the Mozambican National Elite ..............................127
Jason Sumich
VI UNITA and the Moral Economy of Exclusion in Angola, 1966–1977 ..................................................149
Didier Péclard
VII Angola’s Euro-African Nationalism: The United Angolan Front ..........................................................177
Fernando Tavares Pimenta
Changing Nationalisms: From War to Peace in Angola......................199
Justin Pearce
IX Is ‘Nationalism’ a Feature of Angola’s Cultural Identity? ...................217
David Birmingham
X Nationalisms, Nations and States: Concluding Reflections ...............231
Gavin Williams
Thematic Bibliography .........................................................................................251
Index.........................................................................................................................265
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